New Partnership Drives High Performance Organizations

Inquisite has partnered with Applied Skills & Knowledge (AS&K) to extend the services and consultation provided to Survey System and Employee Performance Management System customers. According to Inquisite Chief Executive Officer Arturo Coto, supporting Inquisite's world-class technology with expert consultation will deliver greater business value to Inquisite customers. "AS&K's expertise is in creating, evaluating and improving measurements that organizations rely on to make better decisions, then using that data to address the business impact across the enterprise," said Coto.

Inquisite and AS&K have previously co-presented educational webinars and jointly developed content. Taking the relationship a step further, AS&K will now make competency content available to Inquisite Employee Performance Management (EPM) customers via the system's library. AS&K's comprehensive content library of Leadership and Functional Competencies will enable organizations to more quickly capture and report on customer feedback and employee performance to improve business processes and increase employee satisfaction.

AS&K founder Paul Squires said, "AS&K is excited about partnering with Inquisite to provide the market with the powerful combination of their best-in-breed survey technology and our content. AS&K constantly reviews software products to support our customer's requirements and Inquisite has impressed us with an enhanced feature set and their vision of the market. Inquisite has introduced needed functionality to support better decisions on human capital optimization and organizational performance."

AS&K uses the most current concepts and statistical techniques to develop and evaluate the reliability and validity of organizational measurements such as employment tests, productivity measures, quality metrics, customer satisfaction monitoring, multi-source surveys, and employee satisfaction surveys.

In addition to EPM survey library content, Inquisite's partnership with AS&K includes the following services and consultation.

Survey Development and Study Design

Correct content development is critical to ensure that the business decisions made on the basis of the survey results are supported by accurate and valid survey data. AS&K measurement specialists work with clients to design the survey research strategy including determination of the appropriate target sample, sample size, and survey execution steps that ensure the highest response rate and most accurate results are achieved.

Analysis and Interpretation

Working alone or with the client's subject matter experts, AS&K interprets the statistical analyses in practical and business terms so that the focus is on business decisions and not on arcane statistical complexities.

Reporting

AS&K supports client's varied and extensive standard reporting needs, whether a daily status report, a standard monthly report on hiring activity, 360 survey reports for leadership programs or special reports to inform an important business decision.

Training

The Best Practices Survey Seminar provides survey designers and administrators with practical advice on how to write survey instructions, increase response rates, write survey questions, improve survey quality, and analyze survey results.

Outsourcing (Survey Administration and Tracking Results)

AS&K administers surveys and other measurement tools for clients. AS&K provides full-service outsourcing for whatever method the client prefers, including telephone, mail/paper-and-pencil or the internet.

Using Inquisite, AS&K authors online surveys to ensure the look-and-feel and navigation of the survey is as simple and effective as possible. AS&K delivers the surveys to clients who do not have the technical support needed to deliver online surveys.